kuantem
09-03-2008, 02:41 AM
Sweet! I’ve been a fan of FreeBSD since FBSD v4.8! Now this!!! I went through a number of linux flavors till I came across PC-BSD. Ubuntu, Fedora, DamnSmallLinux, PenDriveLinx.. blah, BSD is where it’s at…
After a bit of searching, I found next to nothing in regards to PC-BSD and the new HP 2133 Mini Note. So I’ve started this thread for those of us that use that utilize the 2133.
To start things off, unfortunately there was no way of installing PC-BSD via a USB flash drive (That I could find). So I picked up an external DVD/RW and download the “PC-BSD 7 Beta 1” DVD ISO. The install was clean and simple. Correct me if I’m wrong, but PC-BSD installs on a primary partition only. I had to dip back into windows and run partition magic (or any partition manager of your choice) to set two primary partitions. I gave Windows XP 6gigs of space on drive “C” and PC-BSD 20 gig of space with a 2gig swap drive. The remaining 90gigs or so went into a Storage drive “Z” with an NTFS file system. PC-BSD picked up the other partitions with ease. Not to mention simple plug’n’play USB devices had no problem what so ever. The BSD boot manager is quite simple. F1=Dos and F3=FreeBSD. Can’t get much easier than that. Also, I do recall having some problems with Ubuntu and my external 250gig backup mini NTFS HD. PC-BSD had no problems seeing the entire 250gigs!
After my notebook rebooted I found that even though PC-BSD apparently supports the VIA graphics card, I was unable to get it to work. I had to settle for VESA at 1024x768 ?.
Next issue, no sound and no wifi. No internal Broadcom wireless support. The broadcom lan hardware worked immediately though! And apparently PC-BSD works well with wireless notebook adapters. So I’m going to pick one up tomorrow.
Anyhow… time to troubleshoot the audio and video.
If any other HP 2133 users have any solutions, please update this thread! It’s been a while since I’ve messed with BSD.
kuantem
After a bit of searching, I found next to nothing in regards to PC-BSD and the new HP 2133 Mini Note. So I’ve started this thread for those of us that use that utilize the 2133.
To start things off, unfortunately there was no way of installing PC-BSD via a USB flash drive (That I could find). So I picked up an external DVD/RW and download the “PC-BSD 7 Beta 1” DVD ISO. The install was clean and simple. Correct me if I’m wrong, but PC-BSD installs on a primary partition only. I had to dip back into windows and run partition magic (or any partition manager of your choice) to set two primary partitions. I gave Windows XP 6gigs of space on drive “C” and PC-BSD 20 gig of space with a 2gig swap drive. The remaining 90gigs or so went into a Storage drive “Z” with an NTFS file system. PC-BSD picked up the other partitions with ease. Not to mention simple plug’n’play USB devices had no problem what so ever. The BSD boot manager is quite simple. F1=Dos and F3=FreeBSD. Can’t get much easier than that. Also, I do recall having some problems with Ubuntu and my external 250gig backup mini NTFS HD. PC-BSD had no problems seeing the entire 250gigs!
After my notebook rebooted I found that even though PC-BSD apparently supports the VIA graphics card, I was unable to get it to work. I had to settle for VESA at 1024x768 ?.
Next issue, no sound and no wifi. No internal Broadcom wireless support. The broadcom lan hardware worked immediately though! And apparently PC-BSD works well with wireless notebook adapters. So I’m going to pick one up tomorrow.
Anyhow… time to troubleshoot the audio and video.
If any other HP 2133 users have any solutions, please update this thread! It’s been a while since I’ve messed with BSD.
kuantem